The Saga Of The Stones

Still on the road... I had just finished hauling the sand away from under a now-dismantled porch. It had been made of stone and wood, but not well. My dad…

String Theory Confirmed By Airline

String theory begins by telling its audience that most of nature remains hidden from us in tiny, curled up dimensions of space. You can't see them, but they're there. I…

Updates

Beavering Away Will be engaged busily this week; posts may become sporadic, confused, nonsensical. More then usually, I mean. Now is the chance to send in a Guest Post (200…

Traveling Day Quiz

Off once again into the wild blue yonder. So today a quiz, inspired by the Cnet article whose over-stated title is "Researchers build DNA neural network that thinks." The piece…

Obama Wants Statisticians!

"Politics as done by Martians." That's Peggy Noonan's phrase, to describe President Obama's call for and use of statisticians and data miners in his re-election campaign. The hiring of such…